Tosefta for Sheviit 2:1
עַד אֵימָתַי חוֹרְשִׁין בִּשְׂדֵה הַלָּבָן עֶרֶב שְׁבִיעִית. עַד שֶׁתִּכְלֶה הַלֵּחָה, כָּל זְמַן שֶׁבְּנֵי אָדָם חוֹרְשִׁים לִטַּע בַּמִּקְשָׁאוֹת וּבַמִּדְלָעוֹת. אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן, נָתַתָּ תּוֹרַת כָּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד בְּיָדוֹ, אֶלָּא בִּשְׂדֵה הַלָּבָן עַד הַפֶּסַח, וּבִשְׂדֵה הָאִילָן עַד עֲצֶרֶת:
Until when do we plow a treeless field in the pre-Sabbatical year? Until the moisture is gone, [that is,] while people are still plowing for planting cucumbers and gourds. Rabbi Shimon said: You have entitled each person to make his own ruling! Rather, in a vegetable field until Passover, and in an orchard until <i>Shavuot</i> [festival at the end of the grain harvest].
Tosefta Peah
When do we burn [alt., "How long do we wait until we burn," see the GR"A] the dried-up residue (=קשין, lit. "hard stuff," or straw) that is in the fields? As to the fields of fruit-trees, until Shavuot. As to "white" fields (i.e., grain fields, see Sheviit 2:1), until Rosh Hashanah (alt., "Pesach," per Vienna manuscript). As to an irrigated field, [we burn the residue] immediately, the words of Rabbi Yehudah. But the Sages say, as to a white field, until Shavuot, as to a field of fruit-trees, until Rosh Hashanah, due to the robbery of men and cattle [?], and as to an irrigated field, immediately.
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